Alex Waldrop
Data Engineer
Nashville-Davidson, Tennessee, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Waldrop is a senior data engineer with over a decade of experience building scalable, production-grade pipelines for biomedical and environmental data, currently shaping wastewater epidemiology analytics at Biobot and now contributing to Posit PBC. He combines deep bioinformatics and machine learning expertise with cloud-native platform engineering, having led large-scale omics processing systems (including CloudConductor) that accelerated genomics workflows for multi-thousand-sample studies. Alex has bridged research and production repeatedly—from automated LC-MS/RNA-seq pipelines to semantic search powered by LLMs and knowledge graphs at RTI—making complex, heterogeneous datasets interoperable and actionable. A recovering PhD in integrative life sciences, he pairs rigorous domain knowledge with practical software leadership, often delivering order-of-magnitude gains in data throughput and reproducibility.
9 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Centre CollegeDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Integrative Life Sciences, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Integrative Life Sciences at Virginia Commonwealth University
Github Skills (20)
google-cloud10
pipeline10
bioinformatics10
semantic-search8
wdl7
scientific-workflow6
docker6
cloud-computing6
application5
workflow-description-language5
scala5
hpc5
r4
r-package4
discovery4
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
RTIInternational/metaxcan-pipeline
Feb 2020 - Aug 2022
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
RTIInternational/biocloud_wdl_input_tools
Jan 2020 - Aug 2022
Tools for converting excel sample sheets to WDL JSON-formatted inputs
Contributions:47 pushes, 1 branch, 1 issue in 2 years 7 months
wdlconvertingjsonexcelformatted
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